After police officers in Texas and Louisiana were gunned down in cold blood by anti-police perpetrators, millions of Americans called for the Black Lives Matter movement to be classified as a hate group because some claimed that the group inspired the actions of the shooters.

While the Black Lives Matter movement hasn’t been classified as a hate group, the liberal Southern Poverty Law Center has decided to classify the “White Lives Matter” movement as a hate group, the Houston Chronicle reported.

In justifying its decision, The Southern Poverty Law Center claimed that the movement is a “white supremacist” movement that only cares about white lives.

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“I can’t speak to how many chapters will be listed, but it’s clear that the leadership of the group, the ends of the group — it’s just a flat-out white supremacist group,” Heidi Beirich, the director of the center’s Intelligence Report, stated.

Based on an analysis of some of the things that members of the White Lives Matter movement have said and stances the leaders have taken, it does appear to be a racist organization.

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However one could argue the same thing about the Black Lives Matter movement. Undoubtedly there are people in both organizations who aren’t racist but believe that blacks, or whites, are being oppressed for one reason or another.

The center has refused to classify the Black Lives Matter movement has a hate group because its leaders have sometimes condemned the violence directed against police officers and because white Americans are often seen marching at movement rallies.

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According to The Daily Caller, the SPLC is “most famous” for having inspired Floyd Lee Corkins to attack the Family Research Council headquarters in Washington, D.C., in 2012 because of the organization’s stance against same-sex marriage.

In March 2014, the Federal Bureau of Investigation disassociated itself from the SPLC, removing links to it from the civil rights division’s web page.

That the FBI under President Barack Obama would cease to recognize the SPLC as a civil rights organization should tell you all you need to know about the organization’s credibility.

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